The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-28
FLORIDA.

FLORIDA.
There arc said to be 200 mechanics from
Palatka at work in st. Augustine.
A. G. Phillips, the longest established
jeweler, in Palatka, assigned Tuesday.
negro named Henry Jackson was ar
rested at Orlando Monday night for at
tempted murder.
Que law firm in Pensacola has appealed
thirteen cases from the Judgment of Presi-
dent Avery Of the Municipal Court.
The Spanish department of the Key West
Equator is TO be discontinued. This paper
is also trying to secure the Associated Press
dispatches.
Mr. Cannon, of Scrub Lake, brought into
Ker City Friday a pet cub bear. 1t is a
kind, gentle little creature and follows Mr.
Cannon about like dog.
The sum OF $1,000 has been subscribed
toward establishing and maintaining pub
lie hospital in st. Augustine, to be located
in the north city suburbs.
1t is stated there are three rooms in the
Ponce de Leon hotel at st. Augustine that
will cost, in the way of decoration, etc, in
the neighborhood Of $4,000.
Bay street, Eustis, is being rapidly clayed
and then Magnolia avenue will take its
turn. Every one agrees that it is one of the
best things ever done in EustiS.
n NlOltII SIOIlu pltNdlltNl at OGtldT heN
Tuesday, reaching a velocity of seventy five
miles per hour from the south The idica-
tiOns were for worse weather and damaging
tides Tuesday night.
At Green Cove Springs piles are being
driven for . -~aarf to extend some 200 feet
into the river i'll front of the beautiful park
owned by John G.. Borden, Esq. Capt.
Small, of jacksonville, is the contractor.
Messrs Tlgham s, Sons, of Francis, arc
so well pleased with the appearance of their
peach orchard set this year that they will
largely increase it this fall, and will finish
up n twenty-acre tract with pears and
pumps.
| Capt W L. Williams, of the Escambia
| Rifles has been offered the appointment of
| Major of the Third Battalion of State
| troops, but has not yet decided to accept, as
he will consult the members of his command
before taking such step
At Orlando Monday a man was seen walk
| ing Oh top OF the parapet surrounding the
| kedney building, Suddenly he was seen to
| lose his balance, and after an unsuccessful
| effort to regain his footing, fell from the
| dizzy height. Luckily he fell on the inside
| onto the roof.
| The daughter of family named Hutton
! living in the suburbs of Orlando, wandered
| from home late Saturday night while tenn
! pOrarily insane. She was seen on Sunday
! morning near Sorrento, and finally traced
! u Tavares, from which place she was re
! turned 10 her home.
james Moot had at Orlando Monday a
! specimen Of the Kelsey plum, raised by
! Capt. ID. \. Irwin at Iellwood. on tree
| planted in January, 1856. The plum meas
| ured BIZ inches IN diameter, and is one
among th.rty Of almost rs great size, all
! gathered from the same tree
| The ,Nipnrs fpr tl,D nav pnuptN Df ny,noI,
! not having as yet received their commits
| Sions the inhabitants are becoming some
! what anxious. There is no way 90 suppress
| lGwleSSneSs should it occur, marriage
| licenses cannot b. procured, and, cvC"v-
thing considered, things are Ia a bad coma
| ton generally
Last Saturday, about ten or twelve miles
/ south Of Fort Myers, sam Summerlin
! ard Walter LangfOrd, being in COMPANY,
ing and yelling. Dr.. Langford came up
and succeeded in dispatchinE it with his re
! vulvcr, the only firearms among the party
! The boar, il was thought, would weigh about
200 pounds.
A heavy storm Monday is said to have
| done considerable damage 10 some of the
/ groves outside Orlando. Some little damage
was done 10 signs and cloth awnings on
! some Of the streets but not as much as
would bc supposed from the velocity of the
wind and the length of time it lasted 1t
was a thrilling sight as viewed from the
tower Of the Kelney building during the
heaviest part of the storm.
Monday, on Santa Rosa Island outside on
| the Gulf beach, sailor belonging ON board
of one Of the vessels at the quarantine sta
! ton, picked up q life buoy with the name
! Advance painted on il, and Il straw hat
! No one at Pensacola has heard Of the loss Of
] "A gf "A lint Lao "A ~
prove a clue 30 the disappearance of such a
craft, tidings OF which may be looked for
anxiously in othar auaItera